Originally Posted by
awesomness2016
This is definitely one of those things that gets mentioned A LOT, and something there seems to be strong agreement on among players/leaders, so hopefully Supercell is working to incorporate a feature to address this issue.
There are essentially 2 basic options: have a button in each player's profile that they can set as active or inactive for war, and allow leaders to set the war roster.
The first is probably preferable, as it makes it so players don't necessarily have to alert leaders, and avoids having players that want to participate, but have the leaders exclude them for whatever reason (though I have to say if your leaders are doing that, you need a different clan, or different leaders). Giving the leaders control, however, also has its advantages, as some players may not log in to change their status, and leaders would rather exclude them than kick them out. Or the leaders may want to include a player that is inactive knowing they won't battle because they want to have a certain number of players active for war.